Castle on the Hudson
| Castle on the Hudson | |
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| Directed by | Anatole Litvak |
| Produced by |
Anatole Litvak Samuel Bischoff |
| Written by |
Lewis E. Lawes (book) Seton I. Miller Brown Holmes Courtney Terrett |
| Starring |
John Garfield Ann Sheridan Pat O'Brien Burgess Meredith |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release dates |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Castle on the Hudson is a 1940 American film noir drama directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien. A thief is sent to Sing Sing Prison, where he is befriended by the reform-minded warden. The film was based on the book Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, written by Lewis E. Lawes, whom the warden was based upon.
Cast
- John Garfield as Tommy Gordon
- Ann Sheridan as Kay Manners, his girlfriend
- Pat O'Brien as Warden Walter Long
- Burgess Meredith as Steve Rockford
- Henry O'Neill as District Attorney
- Jerome Cowan as Ed Crowley
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Mike Cagle
- John Litel as Prison Chaplain
- Margot Stevenson as Ann Rockford
- Willard Robertson as Detective Ragan
- Edward Pawley as Black Jack
See also
- List of American films of 1940
- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, an earlier film also based on the Lawes book.
External links
- Castle on the Hudson at the TCM Movie Database
- Castle on the Hudson at the Internet Movie Database
- Castle on the Hudson at AllMovie
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